ULISSES MORAIS: THIS IS FOOTBALL

We did our best in the game. We controlled the ball almost 85% of the time and had plenty of chances in front of goal. But we did not score one goal at all.

This is football, there are good and bad days. In football, if you dont score the goals the opponent will. In order to win you have to score. And today wasn’t a good day for us but we are lucky because the bad day came at the start of the season, not at the end. If you look at JDT’s history, the first three games are always like this. If you want to look at the real assessment, wait for it.

Regardless, this thing only happens once a year. I don’t believe it can happen twice in a year where you get plenty of goal-scoring chances but did not manage to put any in. It only happens once a year.

We will address our weaknesses and try our best throughout the season. But no matter what, I will not press the panic button, as we need to fix several mistakes. If we analyse the game, we attacked and we controlled the match but we did not score any goals. That is what we have to work on.

JDT is the first team ever in the country to win three consecutive league titles (2014, 2015 and 2016) since the inception of Malaysia Super League in 2004. Before this achievement, no team had ever won the league championship in three successive years since a league system was first introduced in Malaysia in 1979.

Johor Darul Ta'zim FC, also simply known as JDT, is a football club based in Johor. The club was founded in 1955 and currently plays in the top division in Malaysian football, the Malaysian Super League. The club is owned by HRH Major General Tunku Ismail Ibni Sultan Ibrahim, The Crown Prince of Johor.